Bram
Stokers Notes for Dracula to be published this autumn
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New
annotated Dracula - Edited with a foreword and notes by
Leslie S. Klinger.. Click here
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Abraham
or `Bram Stoker is best known today for being the
author of the classic horror novel Dracula (1897). The story
of a vampire struggling to catch victims in his native superstition-ridden
Transylvania who relocates to England in search of less
wary prey.

However,
in his heyday of late Victorian England, Stoker was more
famous as the Business Manager and general factotum of the
actor Henry Irving at Londons Lyceum Theatre. Stoker
held this position for over twenty years and despite a heavy
work schedule, which sometimes lasted up to eighteen hours
a day, managed to write seventeen books including twelve
novels.

Born
in Ireland in 1847 Stoker would be eclipsed both in life
and in death. Life lost in the shadow of Irving and death
in the shadow of Count Dracula. Today he strikes a rather
tragic figure who was under appreciated in his time and
ignorant, even cheated, of his posthumous literary success.

Stoker
deserves to be placed alongside Poe , Le Fanu and Lovecraft
in the pantheon of horror fiction.